Leonard McComb

Talbot Rice Gallery presents a major show of paintings, drawings and sculpture by Leonard McComb. This is his first exhibition in Scotland since 1984, which has a retrospective element brought up to date with work from 2003 – 2004.

Starting from a complex vision, Leonard McComb makes images of multiple marks creating a web of drawn composition. The works are from life, with intensely observed portraits, intimate still lives and studies of landscape forming the core of the exhibition, which will be shown in thematic series.

This is an exhibition of recent and retrospective works, many completed in 2004, what unites them is their intrinsic drawing qualities. It is a quality that is also evident in the paintings, which are handled with sensitivity and economic use of colour. Touring to Wolsey Art Gallery, Ipswich in spring 2005

Born in Glasgow, McComb studied at the Slade School of fine art, London from 1956 - 1959. He has exhibited widely in many important solo, group and touring shows, exhibiting at the Hayward Gallery and Serpentine Gallery, London, and more recently the Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. In 1990 McComb was elected Royal Academician by the Royal Academy, London.

His work is held in important public collections in London: the British Council, the Tate Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery, as well as private and corporate collections in Europe and the US.

A full colour catalogue accompanies this exhibition and is on sale at the Gallery.

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Leonard McComb